Counter-Strike 2 record
Richest CS2 title of the season
Team Spirit, winner of Esports World Cup 2026, was paid $600,000 — more than the winner of any other event this season.
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- events that started between Jun 1, 2025 and Jan 31, 2027, not counting ones that did not take place, the first-place prize from the placement table
Counter-Strike 2 record “Richest CS2 title of the season”: $600,000 for first place. Team Spirit, winner of Esports World Cup 2026, was paid $600,000 — more than the winner of any other event this season. Among 59 finished season events with a named winner; sample: events that started between Jun 1, 2025 and Jan 31, 2027, not counting ones that did not take place, the first-place prize from the placement table. Sqady, https://sqady.com/cs2/records/richest-titles/
every event by winner’s prize
59 finished season events with a named winner
This table by host country (7 tournaments with a region or no venue named are left out):
- China — 7 tournaments; highest — CS Asia Championships 2026, 10th place (shared by 4).
- Spain — 5 tournaments; highest — StarLadder StarSeries Fall 2026, 28th place (shared by 2).
- Sweden — 5 tournaments; highest — ESL Pro League Season 22 and ESL Pro League Season 23, 33rd place (shared by 2).
- Malta — 4 tournaments; highest — Thunderpick World Championship 2025, 3rd place (shared by 5).
- Romania — 4 tournaments; highest — PGL Bucharest 2026, PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026 and PGL Masters Bucharest 2025, 10th place (shared by 4).
- Serbia — 4 tournaments; highest — FISSURE Playground #2, 14th place.
- Hungary — 3 tournaments; highest — StarLadder Budapest Major 2025, 3rd place (shared by 5).
- Poland — 3 tournaments; highest — Intel Extreme Masters Kraków 2026, 8th place (shared by 2).
- Russia — 3 tournaments; highest — BetBoom Streamers Battle #4, 48th place.
- United States — 3 tournaments; highest — BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025, 3rd place (shared by 5).
- Germany — 2 tournaments; highest — Intel Extreme Masters Cologne Major 2026, 3rd place (shared by 5).
- Portugal — 2 tournaments; highest — BLAST Open Fall 2026, 25th place (shared by 3).
- Brazil — 1 tournament: Intel Extreme Masters Rio 2026, 20th place (shared by 3).
- Czechia — 1 tournament: MČR 2025, 47th place.
- France — 1 tournament: Esports World Cup 2026, 1st place.
- Kazakhstan — 1 tournament: PGL Astana 2026, 2nd place.
- Netherlands — 1 tournament: BLAST Open Spring 2026, 25th place (shared by 3).
- Saudi Arabia — 1 tournament: Esports World Cup 2025, 3rd place (shared by 5).
- United Kingdom — 1 tournament: BLAST Open Fall 2025, 30th place (shared by 2).
how this is counted
The winner’s prize is the first-place prize money from the event’s placement table. Listed are finished season events with a known winner and prize: events that started between Jun 1, 2025 and Jan 31, 2027, not counting cancelled or postponed ones. Equal prizes share a place.
Facts and records
The second-richest title: $512,000 at PGL Astana 2026 (won by Team Spirit).
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Team Spirit holds the top two places, the Esports World Cup 2026 and PGL Astana 2026, but Team Vitality has collected the most titles in this table by mid-October 2026, ten, among them both Majors of 2025 and ESL Pro League Season 24. FURIA won four, including the Thunderpick World Championship 2025.
Five events paid exactly $500,000 to the winner, the three Majors among them; the Major in Cologne in June 2026 went to Team Falcons. The Thunderpick World Championship 2025 reached that figure with a pool of only $850,000.
Two series raised their top prize sharply within the season: the CS Asia Championships from $150,000 in 2025 to $400,000 in 2026, Legacy winning both, and the ESL Pro League from $100,000 in Seasons 22 and 23 to $295,000 in Season 24.